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#6,577 All-time worldwide
#66 1987 releases

Movie profile

Radio Days

1987 · 89 min · Orion Pictures

Comedy Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $14.8M
Budget $16.0M
Gross minus budget -$1.2M
ROI 0.92x

Domestic gross

$7.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$7.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Radio Days ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #6,577 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1987 releases #66 Release-year chart position of 235 titles Ranked against movies released in 1987. Studio / company #35 Orion Pictures of 80 titles Position inside the mapped Orion Pictures movie set. Primary genre #2,555 Comedy of 4,840 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

#6,574 Prom Night 1980 · $14.8M #6,575 Surviving Christmas 2004 · $14.8M #6,576 The Space Between Us 2017 · $14.8M #6,578 Not Without My Daughter 1991 · $14.8M #6,579 Somewhere 2010 · $14.8M #6,580 Out Cold 2001 · $14.8M

Quick answer

How did Radio Days (1987) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Radio Days (1987) earned a reported $14.8M worldwide against a reported $16.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$1.2M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.92x. In this database it currently ranks #6,577 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #66 among 1987 releases.

Worldwide gross
$14,792,779
Budget
$16,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$1,207,221
ROI
0.92x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jan 30, 1987
Production
Orion Pictures, Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyOrion Pictures Release year chart1987 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartDrama

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1987, Radio Days is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Drama title from Orion Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $14.8M, reported production budget is $16.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$1.2M, ROI is 0.92x. For comparison, it currently sits #6,577 all-time in the current chart set and #66 among 1987 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.